Recipe Sizer
By Daniel Lao
Recipe Sizer is a recipe management utility for iOS that scales ingredient quantities based on user-defined diner counts.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
It removes the cognitive friction of manual recipe math, though the current implementation fails to handle the fractional units essential for cooking.
For Home cooks who need to adjust recipe portions for varying group sizes.
What does it look like?
Key features
Create and store custom recipes for retrieval at any time
Recalculates ingredient quantities based on user-defined diner counts
Filters stored recipes by specific ingredients
How much does it cost?
Recipe Sizer is distributed as a free utility with no visible monetization, subscriptions, or in-app purchases.
Velocity
Dormant developmentperformanceShow more...
Recipe Sizer has seen no development activity for 677 days. The latest release was strictly limited to internal maintenance for watchOS compatibility, with no new features introduced. Given the lack of updates for well over a year, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
Daniel Lao
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans frustrated.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Inability to process fractional recipe measurements forces users to manually adjust ingredient amounts before conversion
1 of 1 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Recipe Sizer
How's the Food & Drink market?
Recipe Sizer holds a 3-star rating across 5 total ratings. The lack of functional updates for 22 months signals a stagnant position in the Food & Drink category.
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Key takeaways for Recipe Sizer
Where is it heading?
The market for recipe management is consolidating around tools that offer reliable unit conversion and cloud sync. Recipe Sizer remains exposed due to its broken math engine and lack of feature updates, which will likely lead to further user attrition.
- The 22-month development hiatus indicates the product is in maintenance mode, which prevents the app from addressing critical fractional math errors.
- User feedback highlights that the conversion tool is unreliable for standard recipes, leading to a negative sentiment score that limits organic growth.
The SWOT
- Minimalist illustration-focused interface lowers cognitive load for quick recipe retrieval
- Implementing a fraction-parsing engine would resolve the primary user complaint and restore core utility
Next best moves
Rebuild the ingredient parser to support fractional inputs because users report the current tool produces incorrect amounts → restore core utility
The counter-intuitive read
The app's simplicity is not a feature but a liability…
Read the full takeBottom line
The inability to process fractional measurements invalidates the core conversion utility, and a 22-month development gap suggests the product is currently abandoned. Addressing the math engine would unlock the app's basic utility for home cooks.
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Is Recipe Sizer good for scaling recipes with fractions?
Does Recipe Sizer have a paid subscription?
Is Recipe Sizer still being updated?
Sources
- [1] App Store listing
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